You still have time to tell the city of Los Angeles what you think of the Promenade 2035 project, the massive “urban village” that’s planned for the Warner Center area of Woodland Hills. The public comment period has been extended to July 26.

Westfield is planning to replace its Promenade mall with up to 1,432 multi-family residential units, 244,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space, 629,000 of office space, up to 572 hotel rooms and an “Entertainment and Sports Center” with 15,000 seats. When fully built out, the project will have 5,610 on-site parking spaces and 5.6 acres of green space or plaza areas.

Unsurprisingly, the “Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Report” concluded that the project would result in “significant and unavoidable impacts.” On the list: air quality emissions from construction and operation of the project, along with construction noise and vibration above the “significance threshold for human annoyance.” There’s also the “project and cumulative off-site noise impacts” from sold-out events at the 15,000-seat arena.

And traffic. There would be “project and cumulative construction traffic,” “intersection impacts” and “traffic impacts to neighborhood street segments.”

But get this: State law says it doesn’t matter.

According to state law, the Promenade 2035 project could gridlock every major street in the West Valley, overrun every side street with cut-through traffic and turn the neighborhood’s curbs into a concert and sports venue’s parking lot, and those are not significant impacts. Why?

Because in 2013, the Sacramento Kings got a special state law passed to exempt their new arena from most lawsuits under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), and something extra was tacked onto the bill before the governor signed it.

Senate Bill 743 created a special CEQA exemption for certain projects that are consistent with a “specific plan.” In Woodland Hills, that’s the Warner Center 2035 plan, passed by the L.A. City Council in October 2013, about a month after the state Legislature passed SB 743.

The CEQA exemption eliminated the need to evaluate the aesthetic, traffic-speed and parking impacts of residential or multi-use developments located within one-half mile of a “major transit stop,” whether existing or planned.

Promenade 2035 would be within a half-mile of the Orange Line busway.

And that’s enough. The Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Report says that because the project is located in a “transit priority area pursuant to SB 743,” the project’s effect on traffic and parking “shall not be considered significant impacts.”

This was all decided for you and your family in 2013. Did you miss the meeting where it was explained to the community? That’s too bad. City Councilman Bob Blumenfield held whatever public meetings were required to get the Warner Center 2035 plan approved, and it is now well on the way to increasing the number of apartments in the Warner Center area from below 9,000 to a maximum allowable 26,408.

And as long as they’re all within a half-mile of an Orange Line station, their impact on traffic and parking “shall not be considered significant impacts.”

For Promenade 2035, some parking and traffic studies were done anyway, just for “informational purposes.” If you battle your way through the dense prose of the Draft Supplemental EIR, you’ll learn that experts believe people attending events at the entertainment and sports complex might park their cars on the side streets in the neighborhood to avoid paying parking charges.

You’ll also learn that some neighborhoods will suffer from a lot of cut-through traffic, and many intersections and freeway off-ramps will be impacted by “queuing,” otherwise known as waiting in line.

But don’t worry. A Caltrans analysis last year found that many of these locations already rate a grade of “F” for traffic movement. Since they can’t get any lower on the scale, traffic conditions after the project is built can’t be worse than “existing conditions.”

Here’s how to get your opinion into the official record: Submit your comments in writing, no later than 4 p.m. on Thursday, July 26. Reference case number ENV-2016-3909-EIR. Email: elva.nuno-odonnell@lacity.org, or Elva Nuño-O’Donnell, Los Angeles Department of City Planning, 6262 Van Nuys Boulevard, Room 351 Van Nuys, CA 91401. The EIR can be read online: https://planning.lacity.org/eir/Promenade_2035/deir/index.html